Thursday, February 17, 2011

Immediacy, Hypermediacy, Remediation

Immediacy
This picture illustrates a form of Immediacy because it portrays a general picture of a horse and a man, but the artist hides this picture by eraising the surface with a second layer of art. He uses cubism to hide the image.




Hypermediacy
This 3D pictuer illustrates the Joker. The audience sees this man immediately as a crazy, unstable, and psychologically ruined. What the audience does not see is the idea, and philosophy of Joker's madness. Joker's reasoning to what he does is not out of sheer insanity, but his idea of society is filled with hypocrites, he tries to bring the evil out of society through chaos.


Remediation
 Drinking alcohol loosens the mind of the drinker, and allows people to interact with each other with more confidence. This idea of picking up chicks at a pub, and using Budlight as the alcohol, creates an advertisement for Budlight as it allows the user of this drink to talk to girls with confidence.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Invisibilty of Creativity vs. Inevitability

Remediation consists of two logics, immediacy and hypermediacy (bolter, Grusin 21). Jay bolter and richard Grusin try to explain this sense of transparent immediacy that is composed of graphic interface, and advanced programming (Bolter, Grusin 23). This technology of our new era tries to create reality, and replicate it through our technology of graphic design, by making it seem as real as possible. This form of immediacy is considered a perspective, just as Albrecht Durer noted, and as Panofsky reminded us in "Perspective as Symbolic Form, Perspective means a 'seeing through, and, like the interface designers of today, students of linear perspective promised immediacy through transparency" (Bolter, Grusin 24). Even in Western tradition they used oil paint, and the artists used this erasive method to hide his artwork under his artwork (Bolter, Grusin 25). Hypermediacy is qutie the opposite. "Like the desire for transparent immediacy, the fascination with media also has a history as a representational practice and a cultural logic. In digital media today, the practice of hypermediacy is most evident in the heterogenous 'windowed style' of World Wide Web pages, the desktop interface, multimedia programs, and video games" (Bolter, Grusin 31). In other words, what you see is what it means. The interface, the format, the pictures on the computer, is a form of hypermediacy because it does nto hide anything in order to create something (transparent immediacy). Just as the two authors state that "Unlike a perspective painting or three-dimensional computer graphic, this windowed interface does nto attempt to unify the sapace around any one point of view. Instead, each text window defines its own verbal, each graphic window its own visual, point of view" (33). In Conlusion "Hypermediacy expresses the tension between regarding a visual space as mediated and as a "real" space that lies beyond meditation" (Bolter, Grusin 24). The audiences taht are greatly influenced by this chapter in my perspective are cmoputer design artists, online marketers, ore even technological engineers. Immediacy can be described as if you were watching a movie in the theater. If one has emotinal experiences with the movie, our emotions from the experience generated through immediacy are very real. Hypermediacy is seen as if it asks itself "you are experiencing this", or even "look at my awsome construction". One is invisible trying to portray creativity and realism, as the other is inevitably conveying the truth.

But how can we connect this with the ideologies of world Freedom? This is a simple task of thinking creatively. The ideologies of world freedom are have a deep philosophical immediacy. Freedom is the essential goal most humans fight for. Its ideologies create an immediacy like non other. If you were to think about world freedom, you would have a small picture in your mind of what it would feel like. But deep inside the picture lies meaning, emotion, and life, that is hidden, but true.

Work Cited: Remediation by Jay David Bolter, & Richard Grusin (Understanding new media)

Monday, February 14, 2011

Welcome

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Simon
Eric
& of course
Pedro


The Ideologies of world freedom is a big criteria but it has the perspective of three different minds working together to create an artistic, philosophical, and quarreling portrait.How can one accomplish this idea of freedom some would ask? What is the idea of world freedom? Is it possible? Through perspective ideas of different people these answers can all connect with each other. The key point to all of this is the true form of action. Without action, an idea has no meaning. Freedom can be spoken of, but sometimes the ideas, the speech, and the voice of freedom is all indispensable without action. George Orwell discusses in his Essay "Pacifism and the War" about the cowardliness of pacifists. Is it true a pacifist is pro-fascist? I connected Orwell's idea to the ideologies of world freedom by expressing what the difference is between a pacifist and a leader. People would say that Gandhi or Martin Luther King Jr. were pacifists. In my opinion they were leaders, and greater humans for they had the key to action. Both these men did something to fight back against injustice. A pacifist can be considered "pro-fascist" in Orwell's eyes because to speak of world freedom, to speak of the injustice war brings brings no results into reality. The ideologies of world freedom is a form of immediacy. We try to create what we think is just and patriotic as best as we can with what we have. One my see just a simple picture of this cause, but deep down, there is a hidden key, the key of action that pursues this goal to function.